Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932765Ab1ELXuc (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2011 19:50:32 -0400 Received: from wolverine01.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.254]:13001 "EHLO wolverine01.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758906Ab1ELXuR (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2011 19:50:17 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="5400,1158,6344"; a="91115531" From: Stephen Boyd To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 4/9] debugfs: Silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y warning Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:50:07 -0700 Message-Id: <1305244212-19183-5-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.5.1.217.g4e3aa In-Reply-To: <1305244212-19183-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> References: <1305244212-19183-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1602 Lines: 44 Enabling DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS causes the following warning: In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:573, from include/linux/uaccess.h:5, from include/linux/highmem.h:7, from include/linux/pagemap.h:10, from fs/debugfs/file.c:18: In function 'copy_from_user', inlined from 'write_file_bool' at fs/debugfs/file.c:435: arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:65: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct presumably due to buf_size being signed causing GCC to fail to see that buf_size can't become negative. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd --- fs/debugfs/file.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c index 89d394d..7ead5b8 100644 --- a/fs/debugfs/file.c +++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static ssize_t write_file_bool(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { char buf[32]; - int buf_size; + size_t buf_size; u32 *val = file->private_data; buf_size = min(count, (sizeof(buf)-1)); -- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/